Commentary for Isaiah 28:18
וְכֻפַּ֤ר בְּרִֽיתְכֶם֙ אֶת־מָ֔וֶת וְחָזוּתְכֶ֥ם אֶת־שְׁא֖וֹל לֹ֣א תָק֑וּם שׁ֤וֹט שׁוֹטֵף֙ כִּ֣י יַֽעֲבֹ֔ר וִהְיִ֥יתֶם ל֖וֹ לְמִרְמָֽס׃
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled And your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; When the scouring scourge shall pass through, Then ye shall be trodden down by it,
Rashi on Isaiah
And your treaty with death shall be nullified The treaty about which you said, “We have made a treaty with death,” shall be nullified. Every expression of כַּפָּרָה, atonement, is really an expression of wiping or removing something. Compare (Gen. 32:21): “I shall appease (אֲכַפְּרָה) his anger,” (lit., I will wipe away his anger.)
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Ibn Ezra on Isaiah
וכפר And shall be disannulled. Comp. יכפרנה he will pacify it, that is, will annul or remove it. וברית חזותכם═וחזותכם And your prophetical agreement.25A. V., And your agreement.
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Rashi on Isaiah
and your limit which you said, “With the grave we set a limit.”
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והייתם Then you shall be.
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an overflowing scourge which you said, “will not come upon us,” you shall be trampled by it.
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The ו has the same force as فَ in Arabic;26To introduce the apodosis when the protasis precedes; the phrase השלשי ביום is treated as the full sentence ויהי ביום השלשי When the third day came. comp. וישא ביום השלישי on the third day, then Abraham lifted up (Gen. 22:4)
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